Congratulations HISEF Winners February 11, 2012. HONORABLE MENTION Elementary School Entries

Congratulations HISEF Winners

February 11, 2012

HONORABLE MENTIONElementary

School Entries

5th Grade

Navarrete Elementary

Nick Howell, Dylan Fernandez

Vitamin C Reality

6th Grade

Arizona College Prep

Zoe Stanley, Alegra Aguayo

Intriguing Insulation

HONORABLE MENTION

Jr. High Entries

EARTH & SPACE7th Grade Willis Junior

High Sam McClimon,

Ray O’Neal Craters of the

Moon

7th GradeBogle Junior

HighMichelle

HowellFreeze Thaw

Rocks

PHYSICAL SCIENCE

8th GradeSantan Junior High Hannah Stevenson, Abigail Peters

Glowing Success

ENGINEERING & INVENTIONS

7th Grade Arizona College

Prep Gaurav

Jategaonkar Effects of

Thermal and Medium Variations on Magnetism

8th GradePayne Junior High

Colter Hansen

Sail Shape

ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE

7th GradeAndersen

Junior HighBrenna

SwaffarMethane at

Work

8th GradeHamilton PrepConner

FreelandFruit Batteries

MATH & COMPUTER SCIENCE

8th GradeHamilton PrepKeaton GloverSemi Madness

MEDICINE & HEALTH

7th GradeBogle Junior

High SchoolDhruv

MadhavGatorade v.

Powerade

8th Grade Willis Junior

High Danny

Richardson The Effect of

Acidity on Teeth

LIFE SCIENCE7th GradePayne Junior

HighAmber

MeadorpHat Onions

8th GradeBogle Junior

HighLauren HoneaTo Bean or

Not to bean

HONORABLE MENTIONHigh School

Entries

PLANT SCIENCESBreanna Murray (HHS/Crane)Weed Killer Investigation

MEDICINE & HEALTH

Genna Corman (HHS/Miner)How Do Different Levels of SPF Affect UV Rays

MICROBIOLOGYChelsea Gipson

(HHS/Mathis)What's Up With Agar

BEHAVIORAL & SOCIAL SCIENCE

Grace Arnpriester (HHS/Lasswell)

The Relationship Between Volleyball and Spatial Skills

ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE

Pooja Viswanath, Michelle Anthony (CHS/Lewis)

The Effect of the Thickness of Blocks of Ice on the Area That Oil Spreads on the Surface of the Water

CHEMISTRYCelena Gammon, Kennedy

Kimball, Jessica Roden (HHS/Wicklow)

Evaporating Glass

ENERGY AND TRANSPORTATION

Natzem Lima (BHS/Mckelvy)

Algae: The Future for Transportation

PHYSICS & ASTRONOMY

Austin Filiere (HHS/Weidenbach)

The Distance a Baseball Travels in Meters Based on the Type of Baseball Bat

ENGINEERINGAmber Guo, Grace Wang (HHS/Mathis)

Number of Window Panes vs Intensity of Sound

3rd PLACEElementary

School Entries

5th Grade

CTA Independence

Blaise Dalton, Allie Nason, Patrick Casola

Fascinating Friction

6th Grade

Santan Elementary

Jacqueline Dworaczy, Ashley Jones

Power to the Circuits

3rd PLACEJr. High Entries

EARTH & SPACE7th GradeHamilton PrepAryasp NejatHow Much O is in H2O

PHYSICAL SCIENCE

8th GradeSantan Junior High

Madeline HansenDeliciously

Dangerous Drinks

ENGINEERING & INVENTIONS

7th GradeWillis Junior

HighEmily

BranamWaving

Sound

8th Grade Payne Junior

High Dillon Maluski With Great

Power Comes Great Efficiency

ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE

7th Grade Payne Junior

High Madeline

McGarry Arizona’s

Contrast in Chlorine

8th GradeHamilton

PrepEthan EngelGargantuan

Greens

MATH & COMPUTER SCIENCE

8th GradeHamilton

PrepSiddharth

D’SilvaA Browser’s

Speed

MEDICINE & HEALTH

8th GradeBogle Junior High

Neil PoppSlip Slop Slap

7th Grade Hamilton Prep Tony Nehme The Effect of

Different Oils on the Amount of Iodine it takes for the Mass of Iodine to Sink

LIFE SCIENCE7th Grade Bogle Junior

High Justin Ostertag Water in

Oranges, Lemons, and Grapefruit

8th Grade Willis Junior

High Hannah

Lazenby The Correct

Way To Kill

3rd PLACEHigh School

Entries

PLANT SCIENCESBrianna Mullavey Gabriel Rodriguez (HHS/Welch)

Two peas in a pod

MEDICINE & HEALTH

Bethany Powell (HHS/Moran)

H2O2 White

MICROBIOLOGYGokul Ramadoss (HHS/Weidenbach)

And Don't Forget the Soap

BEHAVIORAL & SOCIAL SCIENCE

Cassandra Karver, Dayna Wasley (HHS/Mathis)

Memorization Techniques

ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE

Gurpaul Sidhu (CHS/Lewis)The Effect of Electrodialysis on

the Removal of Salt From Water in Comparison to a Dual Tank Reverse Osmosis Filtration System

BIOCHEMISTRYSavannah Banyai ,Casey

Rowden, Michelle Nakamoto (HHS/Wicklow)

Rotten Strawberries

CELLULAR & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Cindy Le, Emily Jing (HHS/Loutzenheiser)

Extractable Strawberry DNA

CHEMISTRYJulie Tang, Frank Li (HHS/Wicklow)

Factors that Affect the Antioxidant Qualities of Green Tea

ENERGY AND TRANSPORTATION

Bharath Tata (HHS/B. Clark)

Mag Gen

PHYSICS & ASTRONOMY

Olivia Talarico (HHS/B. Clark)

Can Sound Be Seen

ENGINEERINGMadison Scavarda, Kaylee

Roberts, Laurie Lipscomb (HHS/Weidenbach)

The Effect of Different Stitch Patterns on the Amount of Force a Pointe Shoe Ribbon Can Withstand

2nd PLACEElementary

School Entries

5th Grade

Jacobson Elementary

Emma Pudoka, Morgan Swanson

Buckle Up

6th Grade

CTA Independence

Michael Leung, Nick Nold, Cole Steed

Hydrogen Generation

2nd PLACEJr. High Entries

BEHAVIORAL & SOCIAL SCIENCE

7th GradeArizona College Prep

Athan ErtlPractice Makes Perfect

8th Grade Santan Junior

High Jacob

Crabtree, Sritej Attaluri

Passing With Flying Colors

EARTH & SPACE7th GradeBogle Junior HighCassandra Kuerner

Around the World

PHYSICAL SCIENCE

8th GradePayne Junior HighAaron GraffIs It Getting Hot In Here

ENGINEERING & INVENTIONS

7th GradeHamilton

PrepThomas DukeHoley

Parachutes

8th GradePayne Junior High

London Stoes

The Lifetime of a Battery

ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE

7th GradeHamilton PrepMckenna LoopThe Effect of

Soil on pH

8th Grade Willis Junior

High Shelby Nelson,

Brenna McManus

Bringing Butterflies To Life

MATH & COMPUTER SCIENCE

7th Grade Arizona College

Prep Jacob Gonsalves Worldwide

Crisis Due To Shortage of Resources

8th GradeHamilton

PrepJoseph

BrionesNeed For

Speed

MEDICINE & HEALTH

7th GradePayne Junior

HighColeman

RobertsEmergency

Air Drop

8th GradeHamilton

PrepMehrdad

DariushGatorade v.

Powerade

LIFE SCIENCE7th Grade Payne Junior

High Tyara Roberts Water on

Sunflower Growth

8th Grade Andersen

Junior High Kristina Cana The Effect of

Electricity on Plant Growth

2nd PLACEHigh School

Entries

PLANT SCIENCESKaitlyn Loop (HHS/Mathis)

Different Plants Different Volts

MEDICINE & HEALTH

Reagan Blackwell, Grace While (HHS/Weidenbach)

Sun-thing to Think About

MICROBIOLOGYDylan Thomas (HHS/Mathis)

To Reheat Or Not To Reheat That Is The Question

ANIMAL SCIENCESAdam Gaetano (HHS/Weidenbach)

The Effect of Temperature of Habitat on the Speed of Metamorphosis

BEHAVIORAL & SOCIAL SCIENCE

Nathan Kishiyama, Elizabeth Niman (HHS /Weidenbach)

The Effect of Emotions on Micro Expressions

ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE

Jake Xu (HHS/Clark B.)

It is Getting Hot in Here

BIOCHEMISTRYAmaris Tapia, Xury Deputy (HHS/Crane)

Enzymatic Proteins in Bell Peppers

CELLULAR & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Wilson Sullivan (HHS/Amberg)

Diffusion of Water into and out of an Egg

CHEMISTRYCindy Tran, Kendra Wang (CHS/Lewis)

Behind the Scenes of Green Tea: The Effect of the Brand of Green Tea on the Amount of Caffeine it Contains

ENERGY & TRANPORTATION

Devangi Shah (CHS/Lewis) The Effect of the Predetermined

Degree of Extrinsic Curvature and Deviation of Runner Blades from the Axis of Rotation on the Magnitude of the Driving Torque Generated by an Impulse Water Turbine

PHYSICS & ASTRONOMY

Tejas Dharmaraj, Manav Sevak(CHS/Lewis)

The Effect of Electroplating Different Diamagnetic Metals with Varying Magnetic Susceptibilities on the Strength of the Magnetic Field Produced by the Plated Ferromagnet

COMPUTER SCIENCE

David Li (BHS/Decaro)

Evaluation of Optimizations for Spectral Modeling Synthesis

ENGINEERINGIvy Chang (HHS/Crane)Investigating Deposited

Metals on Pyrite for Schottky Barriers in Potential Development as Solar Cells

1st PLACEElementary

School Entries

5th Grade

Navarrete Elementary

Casey Sullivan Hot Colors

6th Grade

Navarrete Elementary

Jin Ni, Aryn Moran

Scrumptious Sweet Potatoes

1st PLACEJr. High Entries

BEHAVIORAL & SOCIAL SCIENCE

7th Grade Arizona College

Prep Alegra

Hernandez, Jessica Bauer

Sports Wii Improves

8th Grade Willis Junior

High Marlee

Coolidge, Sydney Hess

Do I Catch Your Eye

EARTH & SPACE7th GradeWillis Junior HighJacob LabenzLean, Mean, Greenhouse Machine

PHYSICAL SCIENCE

8th GradeHamilton PrepAudrey WestMother Nature = Pitch Witch

ENGINEERING & INVENTIONS

7th Grade Payne Junior

High Joshua

Kazariah Electric

Motors

8th GradeHamilton

PrepDelaney

HayesLiquid

Electricity

ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE

7th Grade Hamilton Prep Emma Robson The Effect of

Petroleum Jelly on Plant Growth

8th GradeBogle Junior

HighKiera BlawnThe Salty

Truth!

MATH & COMPUTER SCIENCE

7th Grade Bogle Junior

High Zhengdong

Wang Computer

Upgrades

8th GradeHamilton

PrepJoshua BroasStacking the

Odds in Your Favor

MEDICINE & HEALTH

7th Grade Hamilton Prep Grayson Peters The Effect of

the Type of Fruit Juice on the Concentration of Glucose

8th GradeHamilton Prep

Katherine Barron

Got Milk?

LIFE SCIENCE7th GradeBogle Junior

HighConnor

MingleLeaf Me Alone

8th GradePayne Junior

HighCece ChenAre Homing

Pigeons Smart

1st PLACEHigh School

Entries

PLANT SCIENCESKevin Chen, Andrea Lin,

Jerry Jiang (HHS/Prince)Soilsynthesis

MEDICINE & HEALTH

Victoria Beecroft, Alisha Joshi (HHS/Moran)

Are Branded Drugs Really Worth Their High Price Tag

MICROBIOLOGYLindsey Chew, Michael Wu,

Jimmy Xu (HHS/Weidenbach)

Sanitization Maximization

ANIMAL SCIENCESNitish Peela (HHS/Nipar)

Maximizing Efficiency of Aminoglycoside Antibiotics used in Chickens

BEHAVIORAL & SOCIAL SCIENCE

Jennica Bark (HHS/Miner)

The Sound of Popcorn

ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE

Christy Sennavongsa (BHS/Mckelvy)

Synthetic Fibers and the World

BIOCHEMISTRYLakshmee Malladi, Meera

Kapadia, Ashmita Sharma (HHS/Wicklow)

Going Bananas

CELLULAR & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Emma Totten (HHS/Weidenbach)

Wet Wood

CHEMISTRYVictoria Ton, Andrew Ding (HHS/Welch)

Kimchi Chemistry

ENERGY & TRANPORTATION

Joelle Cayer, Kelsey O‘Brien (PHS/Bell)

Green Machine

PHYSICS & ASTRONOMY

Luis Suarez (BHS/Mckelvy)

Reduce a Home's Energy Bill with Thermochromic Paint

COMPUTER SCIENCE

Varun Ramesh (HHS/Nipar)

A Novel Algorithm for Real-Time Terrain Rendering using Geometry Clipmaps

ENGINEERINGDrishti Sinha (HHS/Crane)

Fabrication of Micro-Fluidic Devices and the Sensitivity of Tear Glucose Biosensors

MATHEMATICAL SCIENCE

Rajan Sheth, Alfred Xue (HHS/Nipar)

The Dynamics of the Proliferation of Ebola virus

WATER WISE ELEMENTARY AWARDS 5th Grade: CTA Independence

Shelby Cohrs, Rachel Schermann – Examination Of Evaporation

6th Grade: Haley Elementary Kaila Majoek, Natalie Gill – Make It Pure

WATER WISE JUNIOR HIGH AWARDS7th Grade: Payne Junior High

Ashley Marino, Liam Thibeault– Agricultural Aid

WATER WISE HIGH SCHOOL AWARDAhnaf Masroor (HHS/Roach)

Potentially Conservative

INTEL INNOVATOR ELEMENTARY AWARDS 5th Grade: Navarrete Elementary

Maisy Racine, Hailey Camblin, Evelyn Paddock – Innovative Insulators

6th Grade: Ryan Elementary Julia Despain, Madison Frederick – Wheel of Water

INTEL INNOVATOR JUNIOR HIGH AWARDS

7th Grade: Willis Junior High Jacob Labenz

– Lean, Mean, Greenhouse Machine

8th Grade: Hamilton Prep Audrey West – Mother Nature = Pitch Witch

INTEL INNOVATOR HIGH SCHOOL AWARDJoelle Cayer, Kelsey O‘Brien

(PHS/Bell)

Green Machine

BEST OF FAIR BIOLOGICAL Christy Sennavongsa

(BHS/Mckelvy)

Synthetic Fibers and the World

PHYSICAL Drishti Sinha

(HHS/Crane)

Fabrication of Micro-Fluidic Devices and the Sensitivity of Tear Glucose Biosensors